Selenium Automation - A Beginner Guide By Ashish Kumar

Selenium is a popular open-source tool for automating web browsers. It allows users to write scripts in various programming

languages, such as Java, Python, C#, and Ruby, to interact with web pages in the same way a human user would. This can be

useful for tasks such as automated testing, web scraping, and automating repetitive web-based tasks.

The Selenium suite of tools includes the Selenium WebDriver, which allows users to interact with web pages through a browser's

native API, and the Selenium Grid, which allows for distributed test execution. Selenium WebDriver interacts with the browser or

a web app as a user would, either through programmatically sending keyboard and mouse events or through a browser

extension.

One of the major advantages of Selenium is its wide range of support for different browsers and operating systems. Selenium

WebDriver supports popular browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer, as well as headless browsers like

PhantomJS and HtmlUnit. This means that Selenium scripts can be run on various combinations of browsers and operating

systems, which can be useful for cross-browser testing and ensuring that a website works as expected on different platforms.